Key Features A unified treatment of wave phenomena Includes numerical techniques using MATLAB Discusses both mechanical and electrical waves Necessary mathematics requires to understand the material summarized within Only prerequisite is an introductory course in calculus
Key Features A unified treatment of wave phenomena Includes numerical techniques using MATLAB Discusses both mechanical and electrical waves Necessary mathematics requires to understand the material summarized within Only prerequisite is an introductory course in calculus
Akira Hirose received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Yokohama National University, and Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, all in electrical engineering. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he joined the Plasma Physics Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan, where he is Professor and Director. He has authored and coauthored more than 300 journal articles. He is a Fellow of APS, IEEE, and the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Science), and has been Canada Research Chair since 2001.
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* Chapter 1: Review of Oscillations * Chapter 2: Wave Motion * Chapter 3: Some Mathematics * Chapter 4: Fundamentals of Mechanical Waves * Chapter 5: SoundWaves in Solids, Liquids, and Gases * Chapter 6: Wave Reflection and Standing Waves * Chapter 7: Spherical Waves, Waves in a Nonuniform Media, and Multidimensional Waves * Chapter 8: Doppler Effect of Sound Waves and Shock Waves * Chapter 9: Electromagnetic Waves * Chapter 10: Radiation of Electromagnetic Waves * Chapter 11: Interference and Diffraction * Chapter 12: Geometrical Optics * Chapter 13: Particle Nature of Light * Chapter 14: Fourier Analyses and Laplace Transformation * Chapter 15: Nonlinear Waves, Solitons, Shocks, and Chaos * Appendix A: Constants and Units * Appendix B: Trigonometric Identities, Calculus, and Laplace Transforms * Appendix C: References * Appendix D: Answers to Selected Problems
